You have been asked to write an essay about the outcomes of the Civil Rights movement. Which of these is the most effective topic sentence for a paragraph in this essay?
There were two main results from the March on Washington: it gave a national platform to the voices of African-Americans
who wanted reform and it created momentum for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A group of thirteen Freedom Riders boarded a bus in Washington D. C. and hended for New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 4,
1961.
Barry Goldwater, a senator from Arizona who would later run for President of the United States, said in opposition to the
Civil Rights Act: "You can't legislate morality."
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, in Washington, D. C.